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Scientific Achievements Less Prominent Than A Decade Ago
As the 40th anniversary of the moon landing approaches, a new report finds that overwhelming majorities of Americans believe that science has had a positive effect on society and that science has made life easier for most people. The public also rates scientists highly and believes government investments in science pay off in the long term. Finding Exurbia: America's Fast-Growing Communities at the Metropolita
This October 2006 policy study "details a new effort to locate and describe the exurbs of large metropolitan areas in the United States. It defines exurbs as communities located on the urban fringe that have at least 20 percent of their workers commuting to jobs in an urbanized area, exhibit low housing density, and have relatively high population growth."Provides highlights from the findings and the full report. From the Brookings Institution. Genetic Influence On Pace Of HIV-AIDS Progression Identified
Viral load -- the amount of virus in the blood of an HIV-infected person -- has long been viewed as the chief indicator of how quickly someone infected with HIV infection progresses to AIDS. New data builds on previous work that suggests that several other factors in addition to viral load significantly contribute to disease progression rates. The Mitchell Report
"On March 30, 2006, baseball commissioner Bud Selig asked former Sen. George Mitchell to investigate steroid use in baseball. Now, [on December 13, 2007] the report is out."Includes full text of the over 400-page report, a list of Major League Baseball players discussed in the report, video clips, and related news and analysis. From ESPN. Review: Superman, Batman Shine in Action-Packed Public Enemies
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, DC Comics and Warner Bros.' sixth straight-to-DVD animated film is also their best.
 [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." HIV Is Spread Most By People With Medium Levels Of HIV In Blood, Says
People with medium levels of HIV in their blood are likely to contribute most to the spread of the virus, according to new research. The study found that those with a high viral load are the most infectious group, but have only limited time to infect others, because they generally progress to AIDS quite quickly. 'Nanoshells' Simultaneously Detect And Destroy Cancerous Cells
Researchers at Rice University in Texas have developed a new approach to fighting cancer, based on nanoscale particles that can both detect and destroy cancerous cells. The report appears in the April 13 issue of the American Chemical Society's journal Nano Letters. ACS is the world's largest scientific society. Fermions Do Not Travel Together: Physicists Demonstrate Expected Effec
Fermions tend to avoid each other and cannot "travel"in close proximity. Demonstrated by a team at the Institut d'optique in France, this result is described in detail in the January 25, 2007 issue of Nature. It marks a major advance in our understanding of phenomena at a quantum scale. U.S. Life Expectancy About To Decline, Researchers Say
A team of researchers led by University of Illinois at Chicago professor S. Jay Olshansky is predicting a decline in life expectancy in the United States later this century.
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